Website Terms of Use
1.What these terms cover
These terms govern your use of the MapleMind website at trymaplemind.ca, including the course catalogue, blog, and every other public page, operated by MapleMind Technologies ("MapleMind", "we"). By using the site, you agree to them.
The MapleMind app — at app.trymaplemind.ca and in the app stores — has its own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you create an account, those apply too.
In plain termsThis page is about the public website. The app has its own rulebook.
2.Reading is free, for everyone
You're welcome to browse everything on this site at no cost — as a student, a parent, a teacher, or someone evaluating MapleMind for a school or business. You may share links to any page, and quote reasonable excerpts with attribution, consistent with fair dealing under Canadian copyright law.
In plain termsRead anything, link anywhere, quote a bit with credit.
3.What we own — and what we don't
The provincial curricula themselves belong to the provincial and territorial ministries of education. MapleMind is an independent company: we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any ministry of education.
What MapleMind owns is the original work layered on top: our selection, arrangement, and skill-by-skill breakdown of curriculum content, our course descriptions and naming, our data structures, and the site's design and text. That compilation is protected by Canadian copyright law, and all rights in it are reserved.
In plain termsThe curriculum is public. Our map of it — the way it's organized, described, and broken into skills — is our work, and it's protected.
4.Search engines and AI assistants are welcome
We want people to find this catalogue. Search engine crawlers and AI answer engines may crawl and index the site's public pages in accordance with our robots.txt, and may cite or summarize pages in answers with attribution to trymaplemind.ca. Crawlers must identify themselves truthfully and respect robots.txt directives and our rate limits.
In plain termsGoogle, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — come on in, just say who you are and don't hammer the servers.
5.What's not allowed
Except as described in sections 2 and 4, you may not, without a written license from us:
- Scrape, bulk-download, or systematically collect the course catalogue or any substantial part of the site, whether by script, headless browser, or manual copying at scale;
- Republish, redistribute, sell, or sublicense our content or data, or build a product or dataset on top of it;
- Circumvent or attempt to circumvent our rate limits, bot detection, or other access controls, including by disguising a client's identity or user agent;
- Access the site with an automated tool that misrepresents itself as a human visitor.
In plain termsDon't take the catalogue. If you want the data for something you're building, license it — that's what section 6 is for.
6.Want the data? License it
We license the curriculum dataset for commercial use — clean, structured, and kept current as ministries revise. See Data Licensing or email support@trymaplemind.ca.
In plain termsThe legal door is easier than the window.
7.Enforcement
We use technical measures — including rate limits, bot detection, and access blocks — to protect the site, and we may suspend or block access for any client that violates these terms. We reserve all remedies available to us at law, including for breach of these terms and infringement of our intellectual property rights.
In plain termsBreak the rules and the site will push back — and we keep our legal options open.
8.No warranties
The site and its content are provided "as is," for general information. We work hard to keep the catalogue aligned to official programs of study, but curricula change and summaries can lag; always confirm details with your school or ministry documents where it matters. We aren't liable for decisions made in reliance on the site's content.
In plain termsWe keep it accurate and current as best we can, but your teacher and the ministry documents are the final word.
9.Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The version and effective date at the top of this page tell you what's current; continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
In plain termsCheck the date up top — that's the version that applies.
10.Governing law and contact
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Alberta. Questions? Email support@trymaplemind.ca — a real person reads it.
In plain termsAlberta law applies, and you can always just email us.